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Feb 12, 2024December 6, 2024

Adam Szabo Viper 🧻🧻🧻💩

The Virus is Dead. Long live the Virus. In news just to hand Access, maker of the Virus synthesiser, has announced that the hardware is no more. The chips are…

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Feb 7, 2024February 7, 2024

KrishnaSynth Legacy 🧻🧻🧻

I find it hard to see 2007 as that long ago, but it’s just after the dinosaurs as far as music technology is concerned. Put it this way – your…

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Jan 31, 2024February 13, 2024

discoDSP Discovery Pro 8 🧻🧻🧻🧻

discoDSP have been around for quite a while. They seemed to spring up pretty quickly after VST came into being. Evidence is still there – the appearance of Vertigo is…

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Jan 31, 2024June 4, 2024

U-He FilterscapeVA 1.5 🧻🧻🧻🧻🧻

For a very long time I have been whining about filters. For no good reason they are very often neglected in synthesis in favour of oscillators. Even worse – it’s…

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Dec 17, 2023

Blipblox After Dark 🧻🧻🧻🧻

On the base of this device its says ‘toy’. I’ll follow their lead, although I’ve owned non-toys less sophisticated than this. This is the third iteration made by Playtime Engineering…

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Dec 14, 2023September 21, 2024

U-He DIVA and HIVE 🧻🧻🧻

DIVA There was a time when DIVA was one of the few software synthesisers to sound like ‘the real thing’. In fact several of ‘the real things’ and furthermore ‘real…

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Oct 19, 2023December 5, 2023

AudioThing’s audio things 🧻🧻🧻🧻

Bit of a oddity due to renovations – currently living in an alternate space, reviewing things that make alternate spaces. With most of my equipment wrapped up in body bags…

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Sep 20, 2023October 19, 2023

Rob Papen eXplorer-8 🧻🧻

Thanks to Dean G for a temporary look at this suite. I was not keen to buy it, after a small amount of access I am even less keen. It…

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Aug 31, 2023June 3, 2024

‘logue SDK

If you have a minilogue XD, prologue or just the little NTS-1 you can run DSP code as oscillators or effects. The good thing is that anyone can create a…

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Aug 13, 2023April 24, 2025

Two odd machines as VSTs

The dominant word you hear in synthesis is ‘authentic’. Which is a damn shame when words like ‘beautiful’, ‘inspiring’, ‘unique’ are there for the taking. ‘Authentic’ is judgemental, analytical, it’s…

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